shipping

Our first important document send from China went the cheap way and arrived so late the deadline had passed. Lesson filed permanently. Mail from China is genuinely cheap — and cheap has a price. Here’s how we ship paperwork home without the drama. TL;DR (30-second version) Signed or irreplaceable paperwork: skip the cheap surface mail….

TL;DR (30-second version) Shipping a box home from China is not hard — the surprises are. Three rules keep it boring: write the contents and value on the form even when nobody is watching, use the official courier counters instead of random agents for anything important, and expect customs to ask for an invoice on…